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The thing about Ukrainians is no matter what the next morning, they'll get up and say, we'll keep fighting.

Actually, even in the middle of the night last night, there were explosions everywhere,

and one of my friends sent me a video of the garbage collectors.

They were still working.

Kiev suffers its deadliest bombardment in months with peace talks in Ukraine at an impasse.

It's Thursday, April 24th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.

I'm Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, Trump promises dinner with him for top buyers of his meme coin, pumping its value by 50% in an instant.

Also, acclaimed sitar player, Anushka Shankar, on her new album and creating a musical identity apart from her father,

the sitar legend, Ravi Shankar.

By simple virtue of playing it, it was already my own as well.

But first, Vladimir, stop. So pleads the man who once claimed he could solve the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 24 hours. President Trump scolded Russia's president Vladimir Putin on social media today after deadly air strikes in Ukraine early Thursday morning.

Yesterday, Trump criticized Ukraine's president for balking at a peace plan.

Well, we checked in earlier today with NPR's Joanna Kikis in Kiev.

She told Robin Young it was a long night in the Ukrainian capital.

Here is what I recorded from my bedroom.

I was sound asleep, Robin, and these explosions woke me up. I could hear the buzzing of drones flying over our neighborhood.

And then we immediately checked out these monitoring channels on social media. I could hear the buzzing of drones flying over our neighborhood.

And then we immediately checked out these monitoring channels on social media.

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